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Good Readers  Conscious plans to make sense of the text and get the most out of what is read.  Students use these strategies to become active readers in control of their own comprehension  See table on pg. 614 Comprehension Strategies

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Narrative Reading: Story Structure Knowledge “When reading a narrative text, good readers use their knowledge of story elements to ask and answer questions, monitor story comprehension, predict and preview, connect to world knowledge, construct mental images, and summarize or retell”

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Story Structure Knowledge: Asking and Answering Questions  Answering questions:  Students should not only answer their own questions about a story, but should also be guided through teacher questions following Bloom’s Taxonomy

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Story Structure Knowledge: Monitoring Comprehension

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Story Structure Knowledge: Connecting to World Knowledge

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Story Structure Knowledge: Predicting and Constructing Mental Images  Constructing Mental Images:  Students learn to picture the author’s descriptions in their minds  Sometimes readers must adapt their mental images as they encounter new information